Community websites
If you have mobility problems, use a wheelchair or have a sensory impairment, the Access Guide website can help you. Produced by East Renfrewshire Access Panel, this collection of guides tells you how accessible local buildings are, including banks, post offices, council offices and many more. You will also find it handy if you are a parent with a pram, or if you simply get about less easily than you used to.
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The aim of this project has been to provide a Heritage Trail for Barrhead that will help to regenerate the area and provide an interesting, educational and healthy walk for individuals, families, schools, residents and tourists. Working with a number of groups in the area, our idea has been to create a number of walks around Barrhead, each highlighting individual sites of historical importance.
Barrhead-Scotland.com is a community-driven website that involves local schools, community groups and citizens alike. It celebrates Barrhead's strong industrial heritage, while also promoting a positive outlook for the future. You can keep up-to-date with what’s happening in Barrhead today, discover more about its industrial and social history, find a community group or service, and post on the local bulletin boards.
Bengali Performing Arts was established in1992, to promote Bengali culture and to enhance social cohesion in the local community. To achieve this, the charity organises concerts, outings and workshops, as well as other social and recreational programmes. You can find out more about the organisation and its activities on the website, along with details and photographs of past and present events.
This website is the best source of information about the ongoing regeneration work being undertaken by East Renfrewshire Council in Barrhead. The aim of the Better Barrhead initiative is to ensure a prosperous future for the town by creating new jobs, constructing new facilities and creating new public spaces. Projects, plans, background history, contacts and news are all available on the website.
Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP)
The CHCP is responsible for delivering all local health and social care services to East Renfrewshire residents in an integrated and innovative way. Use the website to find out about CHCP health improvement and community services; get information on the CHCP committee; read health-related development plans; or locate your nearest doctor, dentist or other healthcare service.
East Renfrewshire and Glasgow City councils are working together to create a new country park called Dams to Darnley within the greenspace next to Barrhead, Darnley and Newton Mearns. The country park is still in its early stages of development, so follow its progress to date and keep up with all the latest news.
Explore what East Renfrewshire has to offer visitors through this dedicated tourist information website. As well as parks and villages such as Eaglesham, Old Mearnskirk and Neilston, there are heritage trails, garden centres and leisure facilities for you to discover and enjoy. You can get information here about places to visit, things to do, how to get about, and where to stay, eat and shop.
East Renfrewshire Child Protection Committee, in conjunction with children and young people of East Renfrewshire, have developed a website titled ‘HAVE FUN - STAY SAFE’. This fun website offers children under the age of 12 years, information and advice on a range of subjects including - how to keep safe and accessing help if you need it.
In Jan 2004, East Renfrewshire Council hosted the Scottish National Holocaust Memorial Event. This website shows the impact of the Holocaust on East Renfrewshire, home to Scotland's largest Jewish community.
This reminiscence website brings together stories from Barrhead's older generation, as they remember the local way of life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Listen to members of the Barrhead People’s Story Group describe their work, leisure, home life and wartime experiences. Some are funny, some are thought-provoking: all are essential listening! A book of the stories (including a CD) is available to buy.
Your local library has always been on hand to help you find information and advice. Now with My Health, East Renfrewshire libraries are aiming to ensure you have the best health advice and support at your fingertips.
My Health will guide you through the online maze, show how to get the best out of the web and find health information from trusted sources.
Neilston Railway Station was 100 years old on the 3rd of April 2003. To celebrate the occasion, East Renfrewshire Council and the local community worked on a series of activities, including this website and a multimedia CD-ROM. Here you can read poems by local schoolchildren and news reports from the archives; see photographs and maps of the area from then and now; and listen to local people describe their memories of the railway.
East Renfrewshire’s rich and interesting local heritage is reflected in the vast amount of information and history available on this website. Portal to the Past includes photographs, documents, images of statues, paintings and ephemera and other details about the local area. You can also learn how to research your own local and family history, using the resources at the Giffnock Heritage Centre and at other community libraries and archives in East Renfrewshire.
The Single Light website contains notes and reminiscences of Ernest Levy compiled and adapted by David Spear.
The Reverend Ernest Levy is a survivor of Belsen concentration camp.
Reverend Levy moved to Scotland in 1961. He later became the cantor of the Giffnock and Newlands Congregation, the largest synagogue in the country.
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